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Note discussing the ideal weight for a steering wheel, balancing feel with structural limitations.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 72\3\  scan0301
Date  7th March 1924 guessed
  
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(c) Perhaps watch that our steering wheel is not too light - (a large heavy steering wheel would be good from this point, but bad because it would be too heavy to carry on an overhanging tube.





R. {Sir Henry Royce}
  
  
From the Rolls-Royce experimental archive: a quarter of a million communications from Rolls-Royce, 1906 to 1960's. Documents from the Sir Henry Royce Memorial Foundation (SHRMF).


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